skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, we can see that this idea that the stock is too risky to quote is not true because there is a two-sided market in it right now, which can be traded on multiple platforms. The only actually existing peculiarity here is that Robinhood is not allowing customers in possession of 100% margin to open a new long position.
It isn't going to just damage their brand -- Robin Hood the blockbuster business is basically over. They will never recover from this.

Amusingly, them blowing up Robin Hood made me put up an order for $GME. If their position is so valuable that Citadel would destroy a business worth billions, then I am convinced this is an amazing speculative play.
Discoverability is a fundamental part of protocol design. Here's a list of service discovery protocols:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_discovery

We could use a C-3PO (protocol droid, fluent in over six million forms of communication) for interop.
Yeah, but all they can do is halt trading for everyone, that's not what Citadel wants.

Citadel wants to stop retail investors from buying so they can both buy and sell to themselves and drive the price down and scare retail investors into selling.
There might be another layer to this story. Citadel securities is one of the major market makers that handles orders for Robin hood. I'm guessing they most likely were given a heads up. Granted the hedge fund is separate from the market making business but who knows right
If you're referring to the Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission case, it wasn't about free speech rights at all: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colo...

Both sides of that case agreed that the company was choosing to deny its custom wedding cake services to a gay wedding because of the owner's religious beliefs against gay weddings, not because of anyone's speech. In other words, they objected to making a wedding cake because of attributes inherent to who the engaged couple were, not anything that was being said or expressed.

I view it as plenty consistent to forbid businesses which serve the public from choosing not to serve customers based on innate aspects of who they are, like being the same sex or gender as each other, while still allowing them to make such choices in reaction to the customer's speech. Sometimes the line is clear (no speech was at issue in this case), and sometimes it's blurry, but that's absolutely a consistent rule whether or not it's the one you support.

The reason the Supreme Court ruled for the bakeshop was very narrow. The ruling acknowledged that states can constitutionally have non-discrimination laws that apply neutrally to businesses without making available exemptions due to religious beliefs. The ruling was just about the behavior of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission in applying their state law to this case, which the Supreme Court majority viewers as hostile to the owner's religious beliefs and not religiously neutral as the government must be. So it was about religious bias in the government action, only. One member of the 5-4 majority wrote that he might well have ruled the other way had the commission acted neutrally.
"1) Unskilled labor; to

2) Professional labor loaded with student loan/mortgage debt; to

3) Financial stability; to

4) Being able to launch high-risk high-reward ventures

That's possible, but it generally takes a few generations"

That sequence is coming up a lot lately in discussions of African Americans low wealth accumulation across generations, relative to whites.

In the sense that, first through slavery, then through Jim Crow, then through red-lining, and other forms of egregious discrimination, that multi-generational sequence of wealth accumulation has been artificially interrupted.

It's not clear what should be done to rectify that imbalance. (Reparations? Or is it enough to allow this sequence to play out unobstructed starting with current generation of African Americans, similarly to if they were a new immigrant family.)
Like Sama so eloquently put it, "fuck robinhood".

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1354842339336835074
Of course the motivation of Robinhood is to "better serve their customers". However, their customers are not retail investors.
Have you looked at Uniswap?
Ah, so it was the first case. You have a nice day, then.
If I had to guess, I'd say it's a net positive. Robinhood is now all over the press at the cost of a lawsuit from a bunch of Redditors who allege Robinhood can manipulate the stock market.
Sure, but paraphrasing Rick and Morty, that sounds like blocking only buying with extra steps.
Yes this. These days, I'm not gonna bother without communication directly from a maintainer that a PR to do whatever I'm interested in doing would be welcome and can be reviewed and merged in a decent timeframe.
Class action complaint against RobinhoodApp filed in the southern district of NY
Webull is great alternative to RH.

Edit: removing link since people are flagging this post.
It's a ""different"" Citadel only in the twisted sort of logic lawyers are hated for. They're operated by the same people and have the same name.
At my company we’ve always had teams that appeared “all remote”. They just were teams not stationed in the HQ and they were clearly less important (or that was the vibe) and they were usually in a low COL country instead.

The mix definitely will make a cohort of “second class citizens”
It's possible to refresh e-ink without a global flash if you are careful and have a clever controller. I don't think this video directly addresses this but it gives a good overview on the problem space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsbiO8EAsGw
I mean who didn't know this? It's quite obvious that if you're in debt or are poor you're not in a position to start a startup. Meanwhile if mommy and daddy are billionaires you can start up a business and fail with no worries.

Look at the extremes and the outcomes of the extremes. If the outcomes are opposite then it's quite likely that a gradient exists in between.
If you think about it, they basically stopped buying for the top 4 most mentioned stocks on WSB - https://stonks.news/wsb/summary/
This is theoretically true, but there have been numerous SEC enforcement actions based on this not happening.
There was a guy who owned a recording studio. His observation was that artists who had menial jobs eventually made it. The ones with professional jobs all struck out. Brain energies may be in shorter supply than hours.
From this description, I can't tell which side you're characterizing as which. That would generally imply it's more of a platitude than a real realization.

Also while that may be true of individuals (I don't think it is), it clearly isn't true of party leadership.
many small coordinated investment to hide a large movement are already illegal
Is this right? Most of these people pumping up and holding aren't going to get paid, they are going to lose their money when the stock finally deflates. That would be the same whether they halted trading or not.
While I totally empathize with the poor author who had to suffer through this madness, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this rant. My favorite part was this:

PSD is not a good format. PSD is not even a bad format.
Calling it such would be an insult to other bad formats, such as ...
This was linked on HN a few days ago, contains links to dozens of classic papers back to the 1930s:

https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/34992/assignments/syllabu... - Classics of Computer Science

and that page contains this link to a spreadsheet with links to over 150 historic papers and other sources:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wS6O7-ZoFL7Cfjgt-kdh...
So, what's this project about? There's no README nor description nor anything.

I'm curious as to why they'd find it so worthwhile to try to parse PSD despite those troubles. They seem to already have parsers for other image formats.
That's right. Yet I just listened to CNBC report Robinhood stopped trading on Gamestop to prevent people from selling. An honest mistake I'm sure.
He is obviously right in this case but Apple is not blameless either.

The FB allows the users become a commodity for cults, corporations and political agents for manipulating. They can target crowds and individuals with demonstrated weaknesses are and monetized them for a gain.

There should be zero access to people's private habits, grouping and information, period.
This works with the assumption that parents have enough disposible income to fully maintain their children well into their 20's. Which isn't always the case.
>It's worth remembering that an F1 racing car is not road legal and are not driven in traffic.

It's also worth remembering that, unlike Tesla, the author of the article never did any real usability tests for the steering yoke design...
dude, you are so confused. The car design as a whole. A car designed with a bomb in it is a different design than the other civics. Do you not understand that?

This makes my point even more clearly.

If you have Civics with bombs and civics without, and the ones without have a safety result that is higher overall, even if there is some arguable benefit of the bomb (ie, less likely to be carjacked?) if the design of the cars without the bomb results in a better safety result, those cars should be preferred.

I'm going to leave this here I think - I'm not sure who is on HN anymore, but it does feel like the actual engineering type folks are a smaller group, and so normal tradeoff analysis has turned into the outraged / condemn them type yelling.
Like sama so eloquently put it, "fuck robinhood".

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1354842339336835074
Thanks! The geometry and SVG/spline aspects were new to me, as was React.js. The bulk of the logic was more familiar graph algorithms.
This is the "regular people are too dumb to play with the big-boy risk" approach to market access.

It seems classist and doesn't really line up with my concept of the free market.
State reps try to ban Comcast data cap and price hikes until pandemic is over
I guess there's an advantage after all to getting bought out by Microsoft lol

Isn't travis-ci doing something similar? Eliminating their free tier?
Lapdog Capital
Government tells Coinbase to freeze all assets and activity. Welp, there goes crypto being the savior. Yes, I know there's offshore trading platforms, but some like Binance ban US customers for this very reason: government interference.
It seems like a fair chuck of the WSB folks know they are possibly going to lose money here, but they don’t care as long as they can help screw the hedge funds.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6omry/an_o...
Darn, if Apex is blocking at the clearing house level, then the platform I would have recommended is also not going to work.

Edit: just checked, and yeah, there's a message that Apex has blocked buying, plus an investor warning about significant losses. Weirdly my test trade (I'm not involved in this game, just spectating) was accepted though.
>> Melvin Capital has already stated they have closed out their position, think it would probably be fraud if they hadn't.

IANAL but I doubt this would be fraud -- they arent a public corporation making statements about themselves. They did have LPs, but i'm not sure what restrictions there are around speaking -- would anyone know?
This is one of my favourite rants.

The other one is the SO answer about X/HTML parsing with regex. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
>Melvin doesn't have a short position anymore.

That's not at all verified. Short interest is still well over 100% of float. The only thing you are going off is a poorly sourced CNBC report with wishy washy language from Plotkin.
I think the VC one is the main factor here, as is how risk adverse many investors seem to be in Europe. Put simply, the majority of them don't like investing in B2C companies, they don't like investing much money in general (by US standards) and they certainly don't like investing in businesses where it'll take years for it to pay off if they're lucky.

This means that if you ask for investment in something like Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/YouTube/Reddit/whatever you're almost certain to be turned down by European investors, because they're seen as too risky compared to say, a shop saying office software to ad agencies. But these high risk businesses are also ones with a high pay off if they do well.

There's also the fact European investors seem to have a relatively 'stingy' standard when it comes to how much money is worth investing in a startup. While over there in the US it seems like unproven companies are getting tens of millions of dollars on a whim, over here it seems like £50-100K is seen as a 'reasonable' investment amount, with some offering even less than that.

That money is not gonna be enough to hire Google level software engineers, have all the fancy buildings and facilities that many young folks expect, pay for high end hosting platforms, pay for a massive marketing/ad campaign, etc.

So even if you did get funding, you'd likely be outcompeted by US based companies flush with cash and resources that have years of runway compared to your 6 months or so worth.
I can buy GameStop. My friend can't. Trading freeze for everyone, sure. Trading freeze for some people, but not for other people? That's fucking bullshit.
>RH most likely made the decision already taking into account the potential costs of making it (including lawsuits and fines by regulators).

Yep. It's very possible that RH just knowingly violated whatever rules/regulations in full expectation that this would still be in their long-run best interest, particularly if they were financially exposed in whatever ways on the shorts that were generating losses. We'll see how this works out for them - they'll take a reputational hit but honestly most people do not have an incentive to leave the platform other than smoldering moral outrage or because they think that GME-like opportunities will continue to present themselves in the future (unlikely imo.)
>Nothing about this document is saying go use Apple.

It also explicitly says this on page 6, with a number of "If John had used [Apple Product]..." statements, covering everything from Apple Apps, to Apple Hardware, to Apple Credit Card.
If RH signaled to its hedge fund investors that it would be making this change in advance and those funds entered into new short positions with that information, would that open both parties up to additional liability?
I'd guess the truth is dumber here than you think.
90,000,000+ shares were traded in GME the other day. Are we supposed to believe that's purely retail investors, and not billionaires/hedge funds also trying to get some of the profit? I worry RH users will be the ones left holding the bag when the crash comes.
Go to the website for the department. For public colleges the syllabi have to be available. Sometimes this means poking an administrator.

But remember, they are top schools usually in spite of, not because of, the textbook selection.
It's not what I was trying to say, of course they're not your friend, I'm not that naive. But on the other hand if many of their users go bankrupt because of poor trades that could backfire against Robinhood themselves, directly or indirectly (for instance by motivating new regulations).
They must be kidding us...Alexey did it years ago

https://alexey-kljatov.pixels.com/
i can't kill someone if i choose fashion over function for my clothes.
>Yes it's cheap. Yes it doesn't last a lifetime.

Honestly, I haven't found IKEA to be all that cheap? When I was looking for a bed frame they seemed comparable to other midrange furniture places. I could definitely have found a similar thing cheaper online or maybe even at Walmart.

I guess I'm used to buying furniture used, where the floor's the limit for how cheap it can be, but my impression of IKEA was that people go there for the showroom experience and the meatballs more than the price.
That makes no sense though. It's like arguing what if someone uses a car to commit a murder while pretending to drive it normally.

The answer is the same in both cases, law enforcement needs to investigate and catch it. If they can't, too bad, there are a lot of undetected crimes in the world, doesn't mean that we have to prohibit normal activities to stop them at any cost.
The Young Investor Issue 1
Tabs on the side is the real reason I am using Vivaldi as my primary browser.
Tab stacks are useful, too, although I typically only use them when doing research of some kind.

Just installed the new version with two-level tab stacks, seems pretty cool so far, but not yet sure how useful they will be in day-to-day browsing.
Recall that when that was said, it was being said by an executive and director of a public company.
also, you don't ask for 2488+ECC (or +1). the ECC is not visible to the OS or user.

you just care about the size of data the ECC is protecting. if the ECC protects 16K or 32K of data, you want to read on those physical boundaries. as then you'll read a whole ECC block and it will either pass or fail. If it passes, you never have to try to read that ECC protected block again (and maybe fail).

Of course, there is one hitch to my scheme. Ensuring that you always read on ECC protected block boundaries. I'm pretty sure if you use ddrescue to always read the right block size it will, but not 100% (why not? perhaps the ECC protects data not visible to the end user in some way (say the first block is only 8kb, not 16kb in practice).

on the issue of hard drives, there is a lot more going on that puts you at the mercy of the firmware (relocatable sectors and the like). I did lose a RAID5 once (1 drive totaly died, and then in rebuild, another drive threw and error) , and I was able to use ddrescue to recover all but 4K block on it. as I was using a 128KB stripe size, that meant I probably lost somewhere between half MB and a MB of data - if the 4K was contained within a single stripe or not (probable it was). I was content with that. never did discover what data if at all was corrupted, but I was able to recover the raid5.
> Melvin Capital loses billions with their naked shorts, Citadel and other hedge funds short selling

Citadel has no short positions to speak of in GameStop. They bailed out Melvin, which means they made money, not Melvin's positions per se. Also, by the time that happened Melvin had already closed out its short [1].

The conspiracy hypothesis might have legs if Citadel's asset management and market making arms colluded. Absent evidence, however, it's a suspicion at best.

Robinhood is between a rock and a hard place of its own making. Market makers stopped making markets in an increasingly-volatile stock. Robinhood, having relied on market makers for execution, likely has sub-par exchange connections, so their execution quality started degrading.

They're also staring down almost-guaranteed lawsuits regardless of what they do. If they badly execute, lawsuit. When the bubble pops, lawsuit for having been induced to trade through their gameified UI. If they block, lawsuit for interfering with trading.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/hedge-fund-targeted-by-reddi...
Couldn't upvote you more that once :)

Moral - choose your parent carefully, or if you miss that boat marry rich.
Which makes he hope that RH figures this out and weathers this. That app and user experience is so painless that it would be a shame to let it go to waste.
Same here. They are probably just trying to stay neutral and not steer a mob towards specific brokers.
Xee is an image viewer. If you follow the link to the landing page of the repo, it says in the About section it is "Xee source code for xCode 4.5"
How about confirming your "tip" is true before further inflaming people with rhetoric about jail and warfare?
we only allow mindful criminals, not newbs
I wrote something like this using reqwest for a Waveshare 7.5inch display. Also includes a dithering step so all that is needed is a web server serving an image. No conditional requests though but should be easy to add. It is fully statically compiled (even uses musl and rustls), runs on a very bare-bones Linux environment on a Raspberry.

https://git.pixelspark.nl/pixelspark/sparkboard
Interactive Brokers (IB) is blocking GME stock buy even on non margin account.
Sorry I misspoke.

Melvin Capital's short position was in the form of puts, I think.

Since they would expire worthless, better to sell them when it is skyrocketing than to wait and see it skyrocket further and lose all of your money.
That's the same as any market analysis you can read on any blog or mainstream media though. Somebody will just say "buy that stock" and people might agree with the analysis or not. If you think what they have done is market manipulation, so is every other financial newspaper out there.
With the advent of http3 won't normal ajax requests outperform websockets?
I've seen that rant a while ago. IIRC, Xee is an image viewer for macOS.
3D-printed prefab homes aim to disrupt construction market
Good luck with that, I'm sure the courts will be sympathetic when you come in with the "we were trying to manipulate the price of the stock, but then this brokerage, and a half dozen others, stopped us and we lost money!" argument.
The other commenter is right that shorts have unlimited risk, and put option are defined, but they can technically be short by selling calls which would make them expire-able.

But honestly I doubt it was even possible to be short so much with options alone on such a low cap company (as it was before this blew up)
Nice work! Density plots aren't just pretty. I think they show a more accurate story for any time series plot with more than a few thousand points.

The reduceOp caught my eye in your API. What uses have you imagined/tried for changing the density accumulation function from x + y?
To be fair, I have to look over and down to do the same on my 2018 Audi A4 even though it has (far too many) buttons and dials to control that.

My main complaint on our Model 3 is the windshield wiper control. The Auto setting is terrible at actually detecting rain so I can't use it. The manual adjustments require multiple taps and it hides itself again after a few seconds.
fidelity and a few others are commission free, and are not placing limits on trades, and have better uptime.
Not sure if this is legit: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.553175...
This suffers from the illusion that there always is some "choice" or power average people have if a big entity pushes them around in the market.

>doubt they'll be back

Going where instead? Perhaps going to nowhere and not investing anymore, but if that's the alternative RH won't lose much on the margins vs if the "free market" wasn't really just a meme.

We live in a financial oligarchy. If we didn't, this blatant corruption with no recourse wouldn't be happening.
AOC calls out Robinhood for blocking GameStop, suggests holding a hearing
these people are cruising for a rude awakening in electronic trading risk agreements (or similarly worded agreements at signup)
IB doesn't allow you buy GME even w/o margin account.
You just described 75M Trump voters...
Best GameStop Memes
I assembled some of the best GameStop Memes I could find on Google Photos but there are just too many good ones to share by myself so you can also share some of your most favorite ones.

https://media.makeameme.org/created/oh-you-trade.jpg

https://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/2021/01/27/123631/86569094/gamestop-wallstreetbets-memes23.jpg

https://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/2021/01/27/125421/86569201/gamestop-wallstreetbets-memes-adds1.png

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https://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/2021/01/27/125445/86569207/gamestop-wallstreetbets-memes-adds5.jpg
I don’t buy it. They’d try some tricks before capitulating. And look, it worked. Since RH stop allowing buys the price went down